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Friday, April 6, 2012

An Open Letter to Obama Haters, by Terry Ungod Gonzales

This letter was referred to me through Facebook. Since it isn't copyrighted material, I took the liberty of editing it a bit to make it clearer and more concise for this blog:

Open letter* to the Obama haters from Terry Ungod Gonzales:

To your distress; and for the rest of your life, you will bear this:

Barack Obama, whether re-elected or not, will always be “Mr. President.” He will always be the man from a mixed race background who became the President of the United States of America. He and his wife will be welcomed throughout the world by nations and their leaders. The most influential members of the world of politics, arts, and sciences will be their acquaintances and companions. He will be regarded and honored as the U.S. President who entered office during a deep recession and two wars and turned the country around.

You, however, will always justify your lack of achievement on the unfairness of every system, the government, and regulations. You will blame your failure to accomplish anything in a country where impoverished immigrants with limited language skills are succeeding around you, on liberals, Communists, Socialists, and elites.

The small satisfaction you get from writing derisive comments about Mr. Obama and his family will be a pale comfort compared with the reality that exists around you. Bush 41 and his wife are living into their nineties; and with good health and luck, the Obama's will too. You'll see them at other inaugurals; your TV will follow their lives and their daughters‘lives- their successes, the books they will write, and the accolades they will receive around the globe.

You can try to salve your bitter existence with theories of international Kenyan plots or document fraud, but your world will always be limited by your small-mindedness, and your associates will be those who are as poorly adapted to the world around them as you are.

It's time to move on. In your journey into denial, you've already sacrificed your conscience and whatever claim to character you had. Your pretense at a deity-derived morality is mocked by your myopic hatred of the 'other'. Your concept of patriotism is waving a child's flag on the sidelines as others defend your liberty.

Make it easy on yourself. Take a deep cleansing breath and just let go; make the best of your situation. Whether re-elected or not, Mr. Obama will always be the 44th President of the United States of America, and your children and their children’s children will read about him in their history books. No matter how much hatred for him you nourish within yourself this will forever be true.
--Terry Ungod Gonzales*Edited 4/6/2012 by S.K.

Yes, it is true. Whenever we acknowledge Mr. Obama as the first bi-racial or African-American president, the conservatives do protest muchly. I never hear them do such protestations over emails that are sent around, such as the one by a federal judge, implying that Mr. Obama's mother had sex with a dog to produce him.

Or emails that depict the White House lawn filled with watermelons, or of Mrs. Obama as a gorilla.

None of those racist emails are being passed around by us flaming liberals.

It is, however, curious how upset the conservatives get we mention Mr. Obama as our first A.A. president.

funny how those same conservatives supported Herman Cain or would Allen West.Not based on race either but on their message.We just don't care for any liberals message regardless of their color.I know that may be a a difficult concept for you but then again how would you be able to use divisiveness?So yes liberals do see color first.

I don't care for this president's demonetization of certain groups for his class warfare agenda. It is most unhealthy for our nation.

So the "monkey" reference was OK for the White President.You liberals are too funny.

That you don't see Cain or West as extremists is very telling on what end of the far, far right spectrum you stand. They are radicals, and, specifically, Cain is a uniformed clown.

What is interesting is that Michael Steele has been part of the GOP for years and years, but it was only after Mr. Obama was elected that he was deemed worthy to be put in charge of the RNC. How coincidental! Why not 4 or 5 years before Mr. Obama's election?

ANON: "I know that may be a a difficult concept for you but then again how would you be able to use divisiveness?"

Oh yeah. Divisiveness. It was the GOP's unified message before Mr. Obama took office that it hoped he FAILED! Before his inauguration the GOP was playing divisive politics. You have a very selective and warped memory.

ANON: "So yes liberals do see color first."

Explain the dozens of racist emails from the GOPers that have gone around the internet since Mr. Obama was elected.

ANON: "I don't care for this president's demonetization of certain groups for his class warfare agenda."

Can you give specifics on that charge? With links to his demonization of "certain groups?" I'd like to see speeches and such where he singles out "certain groups" and "demonizes" them. If you can't come up with any, then you're telling stories in order to demonize this president.

ANON: "So the "monkey" reference was OK for the White President.You liberals are too funny."

That remark shows your total insensitivity to and lack of knowledge of what the ape image applied to African-Americans has been in our American history.

White people are not mocked as apes as a race of people. African-Americans have been and still are as a way to dehumanize them.

That you don't know this essential part of our sorry American history means either you are very, very young, or very, very uninformed.

Hold it!!!!! We elected a Black President??? Whoa.... and here I just thought of him as articulate, intelligent guy who was doing his best .... to straighten out a mess created by his predecessor. Gees....

The quote below is a blatant and ugly racist comment written by a reader of right-wing blogger Sister Toldjah. She wrote a piece finding fault with Rep. Bobby Rush for wearing a hoodie on the floor of the House in support of murdered black youth Trayvon Martin. One of her reader’s took the opportunity to lecture on blacks in America:

"I fully understand the urge that many minorities in this country feel to participate in our system of government, which is not a Democracy as most people believe, but is in fact, a Republic. I’m not going to mince words here and try to align myself with all the politically correct idiots in the world. I can’t name a more worthless bunch of individuals, than the politically correct idiots we deal with every day.

Yes, this country is made up of many people, from many different backgrounds and many different countries. Given that History of America, the only race that has not been able to assimilate into the fabric of this great country is Blacks. I refuse to call them African-Americans, because they are not African-Americans. They are Americans, just like you and I. But of all the people who have made it to these sacred shores, they are the only ones who have never found their place here. All the other strange people who came here from strange lands, found a way to make a home here. They assimilated. They found a way to make life work in this new country. In doing so, they enriched American life as we know it. Ever go to New York and visit, “Little Italy?” Yes, it is totally Italian, but at the same time it is totally American.

I am well aware of the sins upon black people that my relatives of previous generations have visited upon these people. My question is simple. How long do we, as individuals who had nothing to do with it, have to pay for it?

I am totally sick of this polite game we play with the Black people in this country. They contribute absolutely nothing to this country. Instead, they suck this country dry by their dependency on welfare. They vote Democratic. What a surprise.

Please email me the first time black people in this country actually contribute something that makes this country better. And don’t tell me Obama was something they gave us that made this country better. I could shoot myself."

haw. I have not ignoredthese facts. However, the reality is, whether you choose to accept it or not is this, the President is not in control of these fluctuations.

He, as was Bush, the pawn in a huge global network that is in control or global events, icluding but not limited to the global market.

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS my dear friend. We remain at the mercy of the monied intrests. Obama is really very much the same as the Busheses and the Clintons. The only difference? Th/e Bush Clan and the Clintons understand what it takes to create wealth.

I leave it to you to decide. All I can say is i must be nice to have a straw hero.

"... journey into denial, you've already sacrificed your conscience and whatever claim to character you had."

"... understand what it takes to create wealth." ?

Progressive Eruption points to a factual chart of private-sector employment growth and a petty denier snivels that President Obama does not understand what it takes to create wealth?!? Really?! Job creation does not equal wealth?

One has to accept that for a few low characters who cannot come to terms with reality, they must live the rest of their life in utter, black distress. They cannot bring themselves even to acknowledge their own failure to see the truth. So be it, nothing lost.

Forces beyond the President, any President have by far greater impact on markets than the President's policies. Yes the President has some influence of course. He , and I'm speaking generically here, is not in total control. In some respects a good thing, in others perhaps not so good.

At any rate some are predicting the next great depression in 18 years. We'll have to wait and see. If the prediction comes true I wonder if we'll blame Bush?

Thanks for posting this letter. It's going to be interesting to see how the far right tries to rewrite history in order to make President Obama look bad.

Conservatives love to say that liberals always focus on race. However, imagine the reaction from the right if a Republican had been elected as the first African-American president. We'd never hear the end of it (see, we're not racist... look who we elected). Not that we'll have to worry about never hearing the end of it. Given the way some in the GOP base openly express their dislike of blacks, I doubt we'll be seeing an African-American GOP nominee for POTUS anytime soon.

It's disgusting and sad, but the people who fear and hate Obama — not for what he's actually like or what's he's done, but rather the twisted caricature of him they have created — won't be moved toward reason one iota by Gonzales' piece. Obama haters need their distorted bogeyman image of Obama just as they need their hatred. They need these things because they have character defects and insecurities. One of their insecurities, quite justified, is that without others to make out to be inferior and objects of their hatred, they might be nothing.

Judging by the haters' "accomplishments," they are less than nothing. They are whiners, complainers and troublemakers with nothing more to contribute than getting in the way as others struggle to clean up their messes.

"The auto industry has recovered. GM is making profits now; it was on the brink of bankruptcy when Obama took office"

For a measly 60 billion we saved a million jobs. Like nobody would make autos anymore.How is Ford doing without any of that measly 60 billion? How many workers have they fired? How does their future look in comparison to GM and Chrysler? I guess it is too early to tell. If Chrysler and GM fail after a few years and Ford is extremely successful how would that look? Do we come up with another measly 60 Billion?Oh what the hell, 60 billion here, 60 billion there. Just tax the rich, blame it on Bush, keep helping "hard working families"and create another million government jobs. What company wouldn't take that deal?Any company or for that mater any family would be doing better if they got handed as Elena Kegan would say "A boatload of cash"

"I guess it is too early to tell. If Chrysler and GM fail after a few years and Ford is extremely successful how would that look?"

Why do conservatives always deal in negative hypotheticals?

Oh. Wait. I know why: They're royally p.o.'d because by helping GM avoid bankruptcy, and therefore, saving thousands and thousands of American jobs, Mr. Obama made the right decision, and that pisses off the right; since more than helping Americans, conservatives wish to destroy a presidency.

So Ford didn't need a bail out? Good for them. Obama should have gambled on thousands and thousands of American jobs, making the recession even more miserable than it was?

Well Obama gambled and bailed out GM. GM made a profit and is paying back the loan. Thousands of American jobs were saved.

And you, Anon, come here and bitch about it?

It's all about hating to see this president succeed. There's no other reason I can think of that would compel an American--if that's what you are--to come here and piss and moan about a success story that benefited Americans and their families.

Take your mean-spirited Randian-based complaints to FAUX NOOZ and the rest of the Obama haters. They'll love hearing you tell them how much you hate this success story.

S.W.,

You're correct. People like this Anon who came here to bitch about a success story have bought into a fabricated demon--thanks to FAUX NOOZ and people like that swine, Rush Limbaugh. And whenever there's an Obama success story, their first reaction is to denigrate it or pretend someone or something else was responsible for the success--i.e., the death of bin Laden and how the resentful right never gave Obama credit for it.

There's nothing Mr. Obama can do to make them like him, so I say, fang'em! Why try. Ignore the malcontents. They contribute absolutely nothing to helping America recover from the disasterous Bush years.

Isn't it interesting, shaw, how the righties never bellowed about Pres. Bush waging two wars off the books. They're angry about billions being spent only when liberals do it. Frikken hypocrites, the lot of them

the auto industry was bailed out but the bond holders were screwed out their money because obama put the autoworkers ahead of the bond holders. people buy bonds as a safe conservative investment because the "secured" creditors are supposed to be at the top of the list when it comes to claims on assets.

Billy Pilgrim wrote: ". . .the auto industry was bailed out but the bond holders were screwed out their money because obama put the autoworkers ahead of the bond holders."

That Republican talking point is like Freddy Kreuger. No matter how many times it gets killed, it comes back.

If a company folds its tent and goes out of business, any cash it has and the proceeds from selling off its assets go to paying those the company owes. Creditors come first, then bondholders, then stockholders. But GM and Chrysler didn't go out of business. The automakers reorganized under court supervision. In those circumstances bondholders typically suffer some loss. And that's without any government bailout, and without any executive branch supervision, just the courts.

Why would the courts make bondholders get a haircut? Probably because paying off bondholders would bankrupt the companies, and the objective was to save the companies.

Why would autoworkers get some incentives in the effort to save the automakers? First, because for years the UAW and other industry unions have made big, costly and painful concessions to help keep the companies going. And, the auto workers' cooperation was vital to getting the companies back on their feet.

You can say bondholders got screwed, but the fact is bond investing is not the ultra-low-risk proposition some people claim and others want to believe it is.

You forgot welfare and as LBJ said "I'll have those n---- voting democrat for the next 200 years" But hey as long as he did other things so called liberals like he gets the "typical pass" like Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd right?

"You forgot welfare and as LBJ said "I'll have those n---- voting democrat for the next 200 years" But hey as long as he did other things so called liberals like he gets the "typical pass" like Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd right?"

What this "Anonymous" commenter fails to understand--and never will--is that the important thing is that the legislation was passed, not what asoutherner said about it. Also, this commenter obviously doesn't read history, otherwise, she would have known how many of our exhalted presidents spoke condescendingly like that about African-Americans. We have a long and sordid racist history, and it will be many more years before we're rid of it--if ever.

To foolishly single out one or two politicians to make a point about racist Democrats is stupid and shows a complete ignorance of racism in BOTH political parties in American history.

But right now, in the 21st century, a majority of African Americans find the Democratic Party more attunded to their values than they do the GOP--you know, the party that harbors state chairmen and federal judges who pass around racist emails about the POTUS and FLOTUS.

80 million out of work,record gas prices and taxes for Obamacare hasn't even kicked in yet. If that is success then well you know the rest. So glad Obama is looking out for the middle class. At least you know how to fantisize